NCIS:
TONY AND ZIVA'S TURN...
DISCLAIMER:
NCIS and characters do not belong to me.
SUMMARY:
TIMOTHY MCGEE, IF I HAVE TO TELL YOU AGAIN...
A couple of months ago Timothy McGee and Abby Sciuto got married; now it's time for Tony and Ziva to figure out what they want...
CHAPTER 5: A FEW MONTHS LATER & TIM'S BAD JOKE...
A FEW MONTHS LATER...
It had now been four and a half months since Tony and Ziva had officially started dating.
Everything seemed to be going too great for everyone, a little too good. They all continued to work and get their jobs done.
Abby would soon be leaving until after the baby was born, but that was still weeks away.
Tony had kept his promise about him and Ziva keeping it out of the office, though he was still surprised that he had been in a serious personal relationship with Ziva these last few months.
Every day Tony seemed to be falling more in love with Ziva and it looked like she felt the same way.
Tim was spending over half his days down in the lab now, but would still go out in the field when he had to.
Abby was now six and a half months pregnant.
It had been months since she had a single Caf-Pow, every once in a while she would try to have one, but it seemed that little (Aidan) as she and Tim were calling the baby since it was a name for a boy or girl.
Every time they went to the doctor, Aidan refused to cooperate and would not let them know. It seemed the baby was planning on surprising them.
Tim and Abby didn't care if the baby was a boy or girl as long as Aidan was healthy.
From the first time Abby found out she was pregnant, she feared she would lose this baby to and knew if that happened, she felt she might lose Tim to.
Every doctor's appointment they had been to, the doctor said everything looked great and seemed normal.
ABBY'S LAB...
Abby was sitting at the Mass Spectrometer not working, but staring off into space. She did that a lot these days.
Tim and the others had gone out in the field a couple of hours before and would be back soon.
Then as if they had read her mind, Abby heard the doors to her lab open.
"Hey, Abs, How are you and baby Gina Marie?" Tim joked as he set down the evidence, with Tony and Ziva right behind him.
Abby was not in a very good mood and to hear Tim make a joke like that did not help, she walked over to him and slapped him hard across the back of the head.
Tony and Ziva looked at each other confused, because they knew that Tim and Abby had been calling the baby Aidan.
"Ow, Abby, I was kidding." Tim said as he rubbed the sore spot on the back of his head. "If we have a daughter, there is no way in hell that we are naming her, Gina Marie!" Abby yelled.
Tony and Ziva just stood watching the two, the seemed unable to move.
Abby then turned and began to sort through the new evidence.
"I guess I'll just go back up to the bullpen, since you don't seem to want me here!" Tim told her and stormed out of the lab.
Tony followed, while Ziva stayed behind.
Once Tony and Tim were gone Ziva noticed Abby was fighting back tears and work at the same time.
"Abby, what was that about?" Ziva asked as Abby finally sat in her chair next to the Mass Spectrometer.
"That night Tim was supposed to protect me...
Because that psycho was after me and we thought it was my ex that I had a restraining order against. I couldn't find my tooth brush; Tim said he had my old one...
I went in the bathroom, but the only one I could find was one with a ladybug on it. I told him that the ladybug tooth brush was for cute girls with names like Gina Marie that baked cookies and wear J Lo Glow.
Why did he ask something like that? He knows what happened that night and how when I answered the door thinking it was him and it wasn't." Abby replied.
BY THE ELEVATOR...
"Probie, what was that about?" Tony asked.
"I was joking and she didn't have to slap me so hard." Tim said as he once again rubbed the place where she had slapped him.
"Why would Abby take a joke like that so hard?" Tony asked trying to understand.
"Because the night I was supposed to protect her, she couldn't find her tooth brush. I told her I that there was one in the bathroom, she showed it to me and it had a ladybug on it..." Tim began.
"I didn't think Abby like tooth brushes like that." Tony said with a laugh, but stopped when Tim glared at him.
"She doesn't. She showed it to me, then said,
'It was for girls with names like Gina Marie that baked cookies and'..." Tim began.
"Oh, I get it. She didn't like the joke, because of what happened that night." Tony said and Tim nodded.
"How could I be so stupid to make a joke like that? I didn't think about it." Tim told Tony.
"I think you better go talk to her." Tony said.
"She won't want to talk to me for the rest..." Tim began to protest, but Tony was already pushing Tim back toward the lab.
ABBY'S LAB...
When Tim and Tony walked in Abby was sitting in her chair looking down at the floor, but you could tell that she had been crying. Tony caught Ziva's eye and the two of them left the lab.
"Abby, I'm sorry. I-I didn't think about what I was saying. I never meant to hurt..." Tim began.
"I know, Tim. It just reminds me of the night when I had a stalker, for a while that night I had fun just being there with you. Then after you went to get my tooth brush..." Abby didn't finish.
"I thought we were past that." Tim told her.
"We were until you came up with that little joke. That joke wasn't funny, Tim." Abby replied.
"Did you have to slap me so hard on the back of my head?" Tim asked and Abby finally looked at him.
"I'm just having a bad day, I tried another Caf-Pow today and Aidan didn't like. I can't wait until Aidan is born. Then I can go back to my Caf-Pows again." Abby said.
"I can't wait either you seem a little grumpy without them." Tim joked with a smile and Abby gave him a small smile in return.
JUST OUTSIDE ABBY'S LAB...
"Why is..." Gibbs began, but Tony and Ziva pointed to the lab.
Gibbs walked in as Abby gave Tim another head slap, but it wasn't as hard this time.
"What's going on?" Gibbs asked first looking toward Ziva and Tony, then over at Abby and Tim.
"Probie, made a bad joke Abby didn't like. She slapped him on the back of the head and they got into a fight." Tony told him.
"If everyone is done with what's going on here, there is work to be done. I want the three of you up at your desk." Gibbs said.
So Tony, Ziva and Tim made their way to the elevator, but Gibbs stayed behind to make sure Abby was all right.
"I'm fine, Gibbs." Abby said getting back to work.
"Do you want me to keep him upstairs for a while?" Gibbs asked, but Abby just shook her head.
"No, I'm going to need him to help me down here and you know Tim is the only one I really allow in my lab." Abby replied.
"Are you sure you're all right, Abs? Looks like you could use a nap." Gibbs told her.
"I'm fine. Could you just send Tim down later to help me get through all of this?" Abby asked.
"All right, Abs. Just rest if you need to, you're not Super Women and you don't only have yourself to think about anymore." Gibbs reminded her giving her a kiss on the forehead.
"I know, Gibbs." Abby said as she watched him walk out of her lab.
Then after thinking for a minute, she turned down the lights and went to lie down in her office.
She was just so tired and thought she would only rest a few minutes.
These last few months without her Caf-Pows had been very hard.